Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] Return available first timeslice to the creator, not parent | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:14:59 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:37 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: > Vitaly Mayatskikh skrev: > > Short-living process returns its timeslice to the parent, this > > affects process that creates a lot of such short-living threads, > > because its not a parent for new threads. > > I don't see the point of sending patches for old Linux versions such as > 2.6.21, unless it's something applicable to the -stable tree.
The older trees might want to have this, perhaps the .16 by Adrian, certainly distros still care.
> Do recent kernels with CFS have the same problem?
Very much not comparable, as you probably guessed :-)
> > Patch fixes this issue and > > doesn't break kabi as does the patch from reporter: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/7/21 > > There's no kabi.
True.
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